Element Computer: ION Linux on Linux Hardware

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 13, 2004 @02:52PM from the good-idea dept.

JigSaw writes "Well known Lycoris person Jason Spisak left the company to join Element Computer, a new hardware company which now strives to offer the Apple experience on PCs: they sell Linux-certified modern hardware with their own flavor of Debian, ION Linux. ION is a desktop distro and it is developed specifically to work perfectly with the accompanied hardware. Other highlights include usage support (as opposed to installation-only support other distros provide) and system upgrades specific to the exact hardware the user runs. The KDE-based distro will only sell with their hardware as Mike Hjorleifsson says in his interview." (The company was previously mentioned on Slashdot.)

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Secret developers by winkydink · 2004-04-13 14:57 · Score: 5, Funny

We don't publicly state who and where our developers are for obvious reasons.
Ummm... you don't have any?

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Linux with usage support? by rdsmith4 · 2004-04-13 14:57 · Score: 5, Funny

And it ships on hardware?!? A novel concept! This will be THE breakthrough! 2004 is indeed the Year of the Penguin!
Oh wait, you have to pay for it.
Damn.